Word: generality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examinations for honors in classics is announced by classical committee. At 9 o'clock on Saturday, May 5, the translation at sight of passages from Greek authors will take place and at 2 o'clock of the same day, the translation at sight of passages from Latin authors. The general paper will be given at 10 o'clock on Monday, May 7, the examination in Greek composition at 10 o'clock, Friday, June 1; that in Latin composition at 10 o'clock Wednesday June 6. All examinations will be held in Sever 37. Each candidate is requested to bring...
...majority of the committee of the overseers appointed to consider the letics say in their report that during the last year ninety-four contests took place costing $25,000. The existing system does not tend to encourage a general habit of exercises among the students, but rather discourages it. In rowing, for instance, single and double sculls have nearly disappeared, and the whole energy of the boating men is devoted to the 'varsity crew. The students are becoming divided into two classes, those who are actively engaged in athletics, and those who take no interest in physical exercise...
...School of Library Economy of Columbia College some 300 lectures are given each year. Most of these are technical or of interest to few outside of the profession, but a few are of such general interest and have been so highly appreciated by those who have heard them that by special request they are given in the large lectureroom and the public is invited...
Considering the general interest in the tariff question, a strangely small audience gathered in Sever 11 last evening to listen to the debate on "Resolved, that a reduction of the tariff would hurt the wage-earner." The discussion was opened for the affirmative by Mr. C. M. Thayer, '89. He said: We can see what would result from a reduction of the tariff by taking the wire industry as an example. In this country about ninety per cent. of the cost of production goes to the laborer. The raw material costs about as much as it does abroad...
...that this was owing to the direct intervention of Jalweh. The prophets said that the Assyrian invasions were to punish the Jews for their idolatry, but the invaders themselves had no such idea. The transportation of the Jews to Babylon was not a punishment, but was part of the general plicy of the Assyrian Kings. Isaiah preached reformation to the people and met with opposition, not because of his ideas, but because he repeated himself and bored his hearers. Only part of the Books ascribed to him were really written by the prophet. We are ignorant of his fate...